§5.2. Mania: You tend to have exaggerated beliefs in your capabilities; you tend to be euphoric and may fall in love easily and repeatedly. You suffer from impulsiveness, poor judgment, racing thoughts, sometimes explosive anger. Milder degrees of mania are often welcomed by you, family, and friends, who admire your enormous energy and your many "irons in the fire." Only when family and friends become aware of your poor judgment in buying sprees, delusions of grandeur, or sexual excesses do they try to encourage you to seek treatment, usually against your own wishes: Y (especially lithium therapy), E, P, T, W, X §5.3. Manic depression: You are trapped on an emotional roller coaster: at times you are depressed (see §5.1), and at other times you experience the highs of mania (see §5.2): Y (especially lithium therapy), and therapies listed under §5.1. §_6 Adjustment Problems_ Some critics of psychotherapy have argued that its main purpose is to serve the interests and values of society: a person is judged to be "abnormal" if he does not want, or refuses, for example, to work from nine to five all but two weeks of the year; if he does not accept the responsibilities society claims he should respond to as an adult, a citizen, a husband, or a father. These social demands--so critics of therapy have argued--have been internalized by most therapists so that therapies often do not really serve the individual's needs but rather the prevailing belief-system of society. Whatever validity the critics' argument may have, it relates particularly to this area of emotional suffering that falls under the heading of adjustment disorders. Some adjustment disorders clearly lie outside the boundaries of this criticism. For example, a woman faces the loss of her husband and resulting poverty. She becomes anxious and depressed, {75} and these feelings do not go away with time. Or, a man agrees to a job transfer, wants to succeed at his new position, but is overwhelmed by anxiety in his new environment. His anxiety doesn't go away. §6.1. In relation to a new environment or an already familiar one; work inhibitions: H, M, E, P, N §6.2. In persons with counterculture attitudes and values: H, D §6.3. Emotional difficulties arising from poverty and from the deprivations suffered by minority groups: C §6.4. Inability to accept realities that limit life: e.g., financial limitations, restricted opportunities, aging and death (see §9 below), jobs with "no future," responsibilities that stand in the way of personal development: F, H §_7 Marital Problems_